for those of you at college...

[girlscoutdropout]

I guess anybody who has ever had a roomate could respond to this also I was just wondering if any of you have ever had any roomate problems, and how you got through them....

 

[Mr.Cheese]

Ewwww. You poor thing. Get a new roommate next semester if you can. That's what the people I know are doing. Until then, there's not much you can do. That's a terrible stress to have to deal with.

 

[kitkatsnarepadpen]

My room mate couldnt handle the college life and left.

 

[AngelAmidala]

I didn't have the whole living on campus experience...but I've heard a lot about it.

See if you can switch roommates for the next semester. It might be kind of hard this far into the school year, but it has been known to be a doable thing.

For next year, if you have someone you'd really like to room with...check with your housing department and see how early you have to put your "bids" in (if that sort of thing is done) for a room/roommate. I'm not sure when it's done here where I work...but I know the earlier you request a single room or a specific dorm or roommate, the better your chances are.

 

[fieldsofwind]

well... whats the deal with your roommate?

Remember... God always uses His servants as examples to the lost sheep. This could be his/her 'chance of a lifetime'

take care

FOW

 

[sydney]

I have a roomie, but we get along well, so i really have no advice. Is the problem something that you can work through? Or not? Maybe see your RA or if it's really really bad, check with housing department.
Good Luck and God Bless
~sydney

 

[WOTbunny]

What exactly's goin on anyway? It's be easier to advise if we had an idea instead of guessing When I went to college I roomed with my best buddy.... we're still best buddies so it worked out well I guess! I did watch a lot of people have tough times with their roomies however, but oddly enough it was only in the girls dorms. The guys dorms, even where there was some huge differences, everything was ok. If youre a guy and you dont like someone, just ignore him and it'll be alright

That's just from my own observations anyway. Maybe you should just have some fun with it. Draw a line with spray paint directly down the middle of the room and demand that she not every cross it or you'll hurt her. Flip out on every messy thing. Rage on her if she comes into the room when youre on the phone, or starts on the phone when youre already there. Prank her in her sleep incessantly........... warm water is fun Garauntee she'll do the nasty work of moving out FOR you, ad make it easier. heh.........

Ok bad advice........

 

[believergirl]

My roommate and I get along well. My advice would be to talk it over with your RA and see what you come up with. Try getting a new roommate for next semester.

 

[IslandBreeze]

What's the problem? If you told us that, it'd be easier to help!

That said, I spent 3 weeks living with an alcoholic who liked to have sex in our room while I was there. As soon as another room opened up, I took it.

 

[Mr.Cheese]

Ok, Cammie gets the bad roommate award.
Her roommate gets the no shame award.

 

[IslandBreeze]

Mr. Cheese, you don't even know...this girl had no shame whatsoever. She would come in at 6 a.m., only to wake up an hour later and go to class drunk. I told her one time to go brush her teeth, she reeked so bad. She was back in less than fifteen minutes. Her prof. had told her to go back to bed, and not come to class drunk again. She thought it was so funny!

And as far as her sleeping with guys in my room...I was on the bottom bunk...I prayed for her and tried to set an example. My hubby and I were engaged at the time, and, whenever he came to see me, he dutifully left at 10 every night. She never did catch on, so I was ever so grateful when a room finally opened up!

 

[jjoel]

wow that would have to be the most "interesting" room mate story i've ever heard.

 

[feral]

*lol* roommates..i could give you a list of problems i went through with a roommate. luckily i don't have one anymore. basically start out giving subtle hints about whatever the problem is, and if that doesn't work have a heart to heart talk about it. and compromise, if you can. if that doesn't work bring it up to an ra or the housing department and transfer rooms.

 

[feral]

poor cammie! yuck! hopefully that girl has changed since.

 

[hollygirl]

My first roommate would sneak guys into to dorms.... It's not comforting when you get home at night and find a guy in your roommates bed... She was also bulemic and tried to commit suicide. I ended up having a room to myself before the end of the schoolyear. I'm glad I never have to deal with that again!

 

[Clay]

i currently have two roommates at college. one is a senior criminal justice major who is wicked cool and has a sweetheart of a girlfriend so i basically worship him. the other is a freshman administration major who has a weird fascination with chickens and for the first month and a half of school he followed me everywhere. he never cleans when we have to and he just uses matts and my stuff. hes pretty much annoying and very odd. the way i just get around it is not be around him anymore than i have to. when its time to clean, he give him the shower and bathroom and his own stuff to do so he learns to do the hardest things. hes starting to become more normal and not so weird. i pray hes a lot better this semester, cause i really want matt to have a great last semester with the two freshman he got stuck with.

 

[woodstock]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH roomate problems!!! *dig dig* *aham k im good just had to get that out ....

i had big time prob's my roomate and i were NOTHING alike it was so wrong .... I litterly just went to my room to sleep thats how diufferent we where ......

 

[Laura]

*lol* roommates..i could give you a list of problems i went through with a roommate. luckily i don't have one anymore. basically start out giving subtle hints about whatever the problem is, and if that doesn't work have a heart to heart talk about it. and compromise, if you can. if that doesn't work bring it up to an ra or the housing department and transfer rooms.

Man, lol. I keep hearing all these horror stories about bad roommates. I lucked out in a big way. The roommate I was randomly paired with my first year at school (last year) became my best friend in the world. She's the best. I'm living with her this year too...along with two guys in a apartment style dorm.

 

[Lotar]

I've got two bad roommate stories.
My freshman year, I had 2 roommates. One guy was really messy and dirty, and that means a lot coming from me Worse was that he would always get on my computer while I was gone, even after I asked him to stop. After one weekend I noticed that the history was erased, so I checked out the stored files, and he had been looking up porn on my computer. And not just any porn, mind you, but stuff involving animals
After my other roommate and I confronted him about it he never came back to the room until the end of the year. Oh, did I mention that he was a veterinarian major?

The next year I got stuck with this guy who wouldn't talk, unless he got mad and started yelling. After the first week I gave up on trying to have a conversation with him. He kinda freaked me out, so I tried to spend as little time in the room as possible.

 

[girlscoutdropout]

What exactly's goin on anyway? It's be easier to advise if we had an idea instead of guessing

whoa.. i started this thread a long time ago, before i left. i guess i was just trying to get some good roomate nightmares and roomate solutions out there for all of those just starting college.. so they knew what they were getting themselves into!

my first roomate was a snotty girl from milwaukee. for some reason, instead of staying in milwaukee, she came to green bay to go to school. she had a miserable time, and hated college. she also took it out on me. she said "there's not enought culture here." WELL DUH!!! if you don't understand that you shouldn't go farther north if you're looking for culture, then you shouldn't be in college.